Christ and Horrors The Coherence of Christology

Name: Christ and Horrors The Coherence of Christology
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ISBN: 9780521686006

ISBN-10: 0521686008

ISBN-13: 9780521686006

Edition: 2006

Authors: Marilyn McCord Adams, Iain Torrance, David Ford, Bryan Spinks, Kathryn Tanner

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Who would the Saviour have to be, what would the Saviour have to do to rescue human beings from the meaning-destroying experiences of their lives? This book offers a systematic Christology that is at once biblical and philosophical. Starting with human radical vulnerability to horrors such as permanent pain, sadistic abuse or genocide, it develops what must be true about Christ if He is the horror-defeater who ultimately resolves all the problems affecting the human condition and Divine-human relations. Distinctive elements of Marilyn McCord Adams' study are her defence of the two-natures theory, of Christ as Inner Teacher and a functional partner in human flourishing, and her arguments in…

Book details

List price: $45.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/21/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 5.55" wide x 8.46" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Preface



Christology as natural theology



Posing the problems



Sharing the horrors



Psychologizing the person



Recovering the metaphysics



Learning the meanings



Cosmic coherence: the primacy of Christ



Resurrection and renewal



Horrors and holocausts, sacrifices and priests



Christ in the sacrament of the altar